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FDA approves a high-risk device with a <10% chance of success, and CMS agrees Medicare will pay $23,650 per patient for the device, all without requiring the marketer to show it’s superior to a plausible risk-free competitor that costs $75. Can Lungpacer® wean your patient off

Please answer this “boards” question on VF: what would you do?

Do you know the gross story of how “sepsis bundles” came to be the law of the land, even though they don’t help?

New society guideline says physicians are responsible for providing “family centered care”

Melatonin for sleep and delirium prevention in the ICU : does it actually help?

The weekend effect is real

BOLO: CDC receiving multiple reports of serious adverse events with injectable ceftriaxone, state health authorities say https://t.co/johGUNEyhM

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Here's today's jeremiad/screed/philippic inspired by @PulmCCM piece on sepsis tests today: Ignore Any Report of a Diagnostic Test that Highlights +/- Predictive Value rather than Sensitivity & Specificity https://t.co/w6UHezlcDf #intellisep #septicyte #septicyterapid

Do you think triage tools like ARDS and sepsis criteria (add delirium) will ever unveil a mechanistic approach to treatment? (Please share I don't have many followers) @PatientStormDoc @PulmCCM @PulmCrit @TheSGEM @emcrit @IM_Crit_

Neurologists’ jobs just got harder.

Reviewing the new “sepsis tests” in this series of posts.

https://t.co/s4XplSNR6r

Sepsis alerts work! Just not in the patients who fire the alerts

Political battle for control over organ transplantation flares up. UNOS and OPOs in congressional crosshairs. This fight is about to get ugly - or maybe it just did

HE'S BACK https://t.co/qLmGmhlGLD

This will change a lot of things.

What are time-limited trials in critical care?

Transfusion-associated lung injury (TRALI): Review